After Voyager received a message from this species, Captain Kathryn Janeway attempted to translate the language by instructing the computer to assign symbols to all the different tones in it, hoping to ascertain their meaning. There were over 10,000 different sounds in only one section of the message. In the end, the language proved indecipherable, its complexity far beyond the capabilities of the Federation to translate at the time of the encounter.

The language was so different from other known languages that it initially could not be translated by the universal translator. After some work on the UT by Harry Kim, a rough translation of the language became possible. A transmission in this language was roughly translated as "Too late...Should have listened." (VOY: "The Swarm")